Subject: Re: Porting a modem driver from Linux to NetBSD
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: Bruce J.A. Nourish <bjan+tech-kern@bjan.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/17/2003 06:40:44
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 03:27:04PM +0200, cube@cubidou.net wrote:
> In the Linuxant issue, as long as they are the copyright owner of
> the GPL'd code, they can distribute it under another license too,
> allowing them to distribute a binary form of the driver.

Just to be clear on this point: they aren't the owner of the GPL'd
code. The GPL'd files are adapted from the Linux sources. Therefore,
Linuxant really have no choice in thier license for these particular
files.

The rest of your post is right on the money. 

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